A guy earned $8M from creating agents and making them listen to their songs on Spotify
Summary
一名男子通过创建 AI 代理（bot）账号收听自己在 Spotify 上的 AI 生成歌曲，从点击中赚取了约 800 万美元，并通过 VPN 模拟美国用户以获得最高的每点击收益。
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